On the seventh episode of Halt and Catch Fire’s final season, Who Needs a Guy, Joe and Gordon discuss Comet’s future. Donna takes a vacation. A new collaborator challenges Cameron. Bos and Diane make a life-altering choice.

Shining Hour, The (MGM 1938, Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas)

Joan Crawford stars in familiar melodrama The Shining Hour about a nightclub singer who marries wealthy Melvyn Douglas and goes to live on the family estate. Tensions arise as sister-in-law Fay Bainter takes an instant dislike to her and brother-in-law Young finds her irresistible. Coscripted by poet Ogden Nash.

The movie is based on Keith Winter’s play, which is set amongst quiet English farms. Screenwriters Jane Murfin and Ogden Nash altered the setting to focus on a wealthy Wisconsin land-owning family.

Crusade (TNT 1999, Gary Cole, Daniel Dae Kim)

In this scifi spin off from Babylon 5 the crew of the starship Excalibur headed by Captain Matthew Gideon (Gary “Midnight Caller” Cole) are sent on a desperate search to the ends of the universe in order to find a possible cure for a disease which is threatening to wipe out humankind.

Crusade was Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski’s follow up to that show, intended to run for a possible five years it ended up running for 13 episodes, thanks in no small part to an ongoing battle between Straczynski and original broadcaster TNT over the episode running order (apparently TNT pretty much ignored Straczynski’s proposed running order).

Crusade mixs in elements of Babylon 5, Star Trek and even Wagon Train as it charts the journey of the crew of the Excalibur, set in 2267AD the Earth has been engaged in a long and bloody war with the alien Drakh nation, after defeating the aliens it is learned that they have left behind a deadly virus that could destroy all life on Earth within five years if a cure isn’t found; That was the hook of course – what happens next is that the crew of the Excalibur embark on the classic scifi quest format while having adventures along the way.

Most of the 13 episodes here, whilst being essential serial in nature can still be viewed as self contained stories. The characters are all well drawn with Gary Cole’s Gideon and Peter Woodward’s Galen being the stand outs in fact Galen probably gets more of a share of the action than anyone else, as in Babylon 5 the scripts are excellent, weighty, talky and allow the cast to invest some emotional depth into their roles.